I want to spend some time this summer really cracking in to books about technology, especially when the ideas therein have special and specific interaction with the queer digital space I occupy for so much of my time. Here’s my list.
Imagine queercrip figures that resist limited notions of embodiment and medical pathology, and demand more expansive understandings of disability, gender and sexuality.
These memoirs, biographies, and autobiographies tell the stories of women who ran countries around the world — from the top.
The stories of 10 American women who fundamentally altered history simply by showing up and working like hell — in their own words.
“4. Passionate Vegetarian – Crescent Dragonwagon”
The South’s conservative and religious majority has made it nearly impossible to suss out the queers in classic Southern literature and in the history books. That’s why this list exists.
Want to combine your values and your hobbies with some feminist coloring books? We’ve got you more than covered.
Brain Pickings’ Maria Popova curated a reading list just for Autostraddle readers!
Welcome to your list of queer/ feminist books coming out from January to July 2016. Roxane Gay, Gabby Rivera and erotica, anyone?
Read these f*cking books.
From figuring out your own gender politics to launching massive campaigns and everything in-between, these books have your back as queer people, women, people of color, and other folks living at the intersections. The bonus? They’re also all badass as f*ck.
This book is not a manual to create The Feminist Utopia; it is a process that you are invited to share in.
I’m reading a book about hackers right now and feel like maybe some of y’all want to join me. Just a feeling I had.
Want to know how to have lesbian sex? These books have your back.
“Orange is the New Black” premieres today, here is your really thorough reading list — from Assata Shakur to nuns against nukes to incredible journalism on the various horrors of the U.S. criminal “justice” system.
Queer Canadian poets tend to be experimental, to push against boundaries. They tell it like it is, challenge our ways of thinking, and actively organize for change. Their words are hilarious, heartbreaking, and wise. Here are some queer Canadian poets — mostly female-identified — whose words have changed my world for the better.
Recommendations include books with queer content, reads you might have missed in high school, and recent award nominees!
I want us to embark on some serious herstorical journeys through time, but I simply cannot condense herstory into one post, so I’m gonna condense everyone else’s pieces, books, movies, and projects about women’s history into one instead!
These women changed feminism forever with their scholarship. Let’s vow to never forget their names.
Seriously Carrie Brownstein could tell me to buy her dinner and I’d be like “No problem Carrie Brownstein. I’m a little tight for cash right now but you get that steak tartare.”